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Desiree Godsell

Desiree Godsell is an American dancer and choreographer. She was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where she graduated from the High School of Performing and Visual Arts. She went on to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts in modern dance performance from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia) in Philadelphia.

After graduation, she moved to New York City, where she began choreographing and dancing for the Atlantic Records recording artist Santigold. She has since toured the world, working with such artists as Coldplay, Kanye West, Jay-Z, M.I.A. rapper, and Rihanna. She has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O'Brian, Jules Holland, and Stephen Colbert. Simultaneously, Desiree began her salsa career straight at the top, partnering with the "mambo king" himself Eddie Torres.

Since then she's danced with Griselle Ponce, Sekou McMiller, Maria Torres, Andy Cruz, Caribbean Soul, starred in Lamambopera off Broadway, on Telefutura's "quiero ser estrella", she was a salsa coach on two separate MTV made episodes, won the 2014 Univision Latin dance competition with her partner Alex Morel, kizomba with Manuel Dos Santos and most recently appeared as a dancer in Shine the movie. She tours teaching and performing salsa, bachata, cha cha, latin release, and many other latin dance styles at latin dance festivals and congresses all around the world.

This year she will sit on the judging panel at both the world salsa summit and the world bachata masters in Spain. She co-produces her own multi-media dance concert series, the Pearl. Additionally, Emoves has been a haven for Desiree to continue working in concert dance and this year will be her third round as a choreographer - last year she performed with Malcolm Low and Formal Structure. Her last work at Harlem Stages, "Mambo Mambo" received laudable reviews by the New York Times. Desiree hopes to continue exploring and fusing latin and modern dance.